NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 vs NVIDIA A40 PCIe

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 NVIDIA A40 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 and 48GB VRAM A40 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 300W)

NVIDIA A40 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 2% (1740MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (48GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (695.8GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

9472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

4.372 TFLOPS

A40 PCIe +755%

37.42 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB GP104

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A40 PCIe

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Oct 2020

GeForce 10

Generation

Tesla

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1305 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1740 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1812 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

48GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

695.8GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

84

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

10752

80

TMUs

336

48

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

194.9 GPixel/s

136.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

584.6 GTexel/s

68.32 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

37.42 TFLOPS

4.372 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

37.42 TFLOPS

136.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

584.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

GA102

GP104-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

16 nm

Process Size

8 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

300W

300 W

Suggested PSU

700 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

8.6

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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